I mean the person you can be totally yourself with. The person who knows almost everything there is to know about you. The person (who is not your partner) who you most want to hang out with for hours and hours doing nothing and talking about everything.

When you talk to that person, you sound like your whole self.

You take up a table all the way through the shift change, you walk 25 blocks before you turn around to head back, you sit on the kitchen floor leaning against the cabinets until your butt falls asleep.

You talk about everything and nothing for a very long time, and your whole self is there. And your friend can hear it because your whole voice is there, too.

Your relaxed lower-pitched voice where nothing is forced and nothing is held.